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“ Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re ﬁfteen and thirty-ﬁve is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-ﬁve ” is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams: „The Salmon of Doubt“

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“ A tuneless future is the writing on thewall. If today and tomorrow the musicindustry is not able to solve its economicproblems, the day after tomorrow, in spiteof all the super-technologies, there wouldbe hardly any music left that could becopied. ”

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+ 66% + 50% + 30% New feature New music New books ﬁlms per year albums per year per year (2003-2007) (2000-2007) (2002-2007)Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf (2010): File-Sharing and Copyright, Online: http://musicbusinessresearch.ﬁles.wordpress.com/2010/06/paper-felix-oberholzer-gee.pdf

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Make a living with writing? 40% Could live from writing alone Need another job to survive 60%Professional writers (>50% oftime to writing) in UK and Germany Kretschmer/Hardwick (2007): Authors‘ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources: A Survey of 25,000 British and German Writers, Online: http://www.cippm.org.uk/alcs_study.html

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“ [T]he more copyright related the incomestream, the more extreme is the distributionof income.A small number of very high earners earn adisproportionate share of total income. ” Kretschmer/Hardwick (2007): Authors‘ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources: A Survey of 25,000 British and German Writers, Online: http://www.cippm.org.uk/alcs_study.html, p. 64

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After ten years the huge majority of works is no longer commercially exploitable. 100% of works are still protected by copyright for decades to come.Bild: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_book_-_Basking_Ridge_Historical_Society_(1).jpg

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The Missing 20th Century New Books from Amazon by Decade (Random sample of 2.500 books)Quelle:http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-missing-20th-century-how-copyright-protection-makes-books-vanish/255282/